The use of Language and Abortion


It has been said that whoever controls language controls the culture. In todays woke culture, you can get fired for what you say, even if it’s totally innocuous. A Texas professor was fired for claiming there are only two sexes. Click here for the story. You can be called a “racist” for simply disagreeing with your opponent. Here are some examples. The other day I was checking my Instagram profile and noticed that Instagram has a space in your profile where you can add your favored pronouns.

When it comes to the unborn, the crucial question we must ask ourselves is what is the unborn? Is the unborn just tissue or a human being in the womb? Our culture ignores this question. Instead they refer to abortion as “a women’s right to choose,” or women’s health. But this would be fine if the unborn was just tissue, like your tonsils. As I walk my neighborhood I see yard signs with such messages as “science is real,” “love is love,” and so on. Now, I agree, but what does it mean, science is real, for instance? Science agrees that the unborn is a human being, and that human life begins at conception. Click here for the story. Dr. Landrum Shettles, the first scientist to achieve conception in a test tube, writes that conception not only confers life, it “defines” life. See Scott Klusendorf’s book “Pro-Life 101, p.12 (2002). Here is a list of what science says about the beginning of human life from Princeton University. So when you state that science is real, as the sign here states, what are you saying? Do you include the unborn in that definition? If not, science is in your subjective mind only and not real.

Back to the control of language. In today’s crazy woke culture, you can be fired from your job if you “misidentify” one of your colleagues, for instance, who is “gender fluid.” At the same time, you can ignore the reality of a human life in the womb and no one will complain. What have we done with reason and logic? Is relative language the major determining factor or reality, or science, or logic, or morality?

On page 14 of Scott Klusendorf’s book mentioned earlier, he discussed the differences between a newborn and an unborn, none of which are relevant to its status as a human being: Size, Level of development, environment and Degree of dependency (SLED). Klusendorf is a prolific pro-life speaker out of Atlanta. In October of this year he will be speaking at the fund raising banquet for the Torrance Pregnancy Help Center. His website is: https://prolifetraining.com. To find out more about the Torrance Pregnancy Help Center go to their website: https://supportphctorrance.org

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